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Given that RC control units are capable of quite complex control surface movements, the building of a crude model capable of carrying quite a large payload is both feasible and well within the capability of anyone with some cash, good hand eye coordination, and access to a library with a stock of old model airplane magazines.

However, any chainsaw can be used as a power unit for a large model - is ATF going to have a requirement for background checks for chainsaw purchasers? Oops - perhaps I confused ATF with GangGreen (your local enviro-MENTAL FREAK organization).

Those whackos would like all chainsaw owners registered.

What about BBQ tanks and flour? As a gentleman (retired from Special Forces)
I know said, "Consider a Cherry bomb in the middle of a coffee can full of flour, but make sure you use an electrical ignition source."

I asked why the electrical ignition warning and was told "Because you can't run fast enough to survive the blast if you use a match."

Think he was jesting? Check how little flour it takes to create a silo explosion. Did you also pull up some silo explosion pics on Google.com?

Any widely dispersed combustible material with a fast flame front propigation rate is capable of causing a very damaging blast. Ckeck 'fuel air bombs at Google.com and you can download a short video of one in action courtesy of the US Navy.

MORAL: DETERRNCE, - - NOT SURRENDER!

Deter whackos. Don't give up your free society. Otherwise, it will be model planes first, then BBQ tanks, finally flour will have to be registered.

Can't you just see it now. Jimmy Buffet is mixing up a batch of pancake mix for his family on Sunday morning when BATF agents do a 'Forced Entry' screaming "Drop the flour!
Assume the Position!"

A BATF "agent" mistakes the spatula for:
1. A SS handgun.
2. A sword.
3. A knife.
4. "Lethal weapon, as defined by him on the spur of the
moment.

Result: Jimmy is 'buffeted' by a hail of 9mm and - No more
Margaritaville music.

Surprise! surprise! surprise! ALong with all that firepower, BATF arrived with confiscation papers for the property, all music royalty rights, and his youngest daughter.

Wait a minute - we are talking Left Coast here. They also take his youngest boy.

Before you start flaming me, what if this happened in Kalifornia? What wouldn't a Left Coast Judge allow?

There is no end to what can be damaging if mis-used by the willfully destructive. Those used to be called "evil".

In this Republic, we can't allow our freedoms to be nibbled away by a flock of quacking socialist ducks. Rather than give up model airplanes, chainsaws, flour, and propane BBQ's, etc., elect politicians more like GW Bush than "Our Bill" & the HilaBeast.

We get, deserve, and have to live with the consequences of - voting. In a Republic, voting (by an informed electorate) and the political process is second in importance only to breathing.

Register whackos (Islamic, enviro, etc.), not things. Things don't kill people. Whackos kill people.

Given the damning evidence of the negative impact of the last Democratic administration under the Clintons - Could we require BATF registration to register as a Democrat?